I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

There's always some relief in giving up.